Even in the darkest glimmers of despair, there is what we call truth. But what if the glimmers of light is something to which the rest of the World is blind? Sooner than you think, Death will come to call. While you can, look over your shoulder to see how you have been doing. Terrible tigers one day, dust kittens the next! Do look at First Maccabees (2.63). Whenever a Devout is out of eyesight, one is out of mind-set. Oh, the blobbiness and blabbiness of the human heart! It meditates only on the present and makes no provision for the future! In everything you think and do, you ought to conduct yourself as though you were going to die tomorrow. If you have a god conscience, there is not much to fear. Hide, yes, but not from Death; it is your sins you should take cover from. However, what if there is no tomorrow and you are not ready today? And in the unlikely event that there is a tomorrow, what then? A long life is good to have, but how does it compare to a changed life? Let me put it another way. Is there really a connection between length of life and amount of change for the better? Often just the opposite is true. The longer you live, the more guilt you rack up. One day—just imagine one day—of your life devoted to spiritual change! If you could find just one such day in your life, you would be better off than the rest of Humankind. Many self-actualized reflect on the fact that year have passed since their conversion. However, I would contest that what they underwent so long ago was a real conversion. Why? The fruit of that change is barely visible to the unassisted eye today. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

A short life has its fears, but a long life has its dangers. Always keep before your eyes the hour of your own death, and daily prepare yourself for the moment of death. That would please Jesus son of Sirach (7.36). Do this, and happiness will be yours. Often you have been present when a self-actualized dies. Just drink that scene in, in the full knowledge that you will soon be making this very same journey. Jesus son of Sirach promised that (38.22), and, of course, he too has fulfilled his own promise. When morning comes, think to yourself that night will never come. When nigh falls, dare no to promise yourself another dawn. Hold yourself in readiness, as the Gospel of Luke urges (21.36), and do not miss a beat. Why? We all know people who have died before they said a prayer or changed their life. When Death knocks, surprise him. Invite him in and ask what took him so long—the tea has been getting cold. Physical death is the separation of the spirit from the mortal body. The Fall of Adam brought physical death into the World. “And he said unto them: Because that Adam fell, we are; and by his fall came death; and we are made partakers of misery and woe,” reports Moses 6.48. Yes, there will be a knock at the door. And yes, the Son of Man will come as surely as Death. Problem is, we still do not know when to put the kettle on. Death is an essential part of Heavenly Father’s plan of salvation. “For as death hath passed upon all men, to fulfill the merciful plan of the great Creator, there must needs be a power of resurrection, and the resurrection must needs come unto man by reason of the fall; and the fall came by reason of transgression; and because man became fallen, they were cut off from the presence of the Lord,” reports 2 Nephi 9.6. #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

How happy and prudent is the person whose life is lived up to one’s eulogy! What steps did one take to attain such perfection? Complete contempt for the World and everything in it. Fervent desire to make spiritual progress. Love of discipline. Labour of penitence. Promptness of obedience. Abnegation of self. Bearing up under every adversity for the love of Christ. Having become expert in all these virtues, one can feel confident that one will die a good death. However, for many, the life of the sing Jewel may be floating around in their subconscious. “Who will save your souls? After all those lies that you told. Now, who will save your souls, if you don’t say your own?” (Who Will Save Your Soul, song by Jewel). When the physical body dies, the spirit continues to live. In the spirit World, the spirits of the righteous “are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow,” reports Alma 40.12. A place called spirit prison is reserved for “those who [have] died in their sins, without knowledge of the truth, or in transgression, having rejected the prophets,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 138.32. The Spirits in prison are “taught faith in God, repentance from sin, vicarious baptism for the remission of sins, the gift of the Holy Ghost by laying on of hands, and all other principles of the gospel that [are] necessary for them to know,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 138.33-34. If they accept the principles of the gospel, repent of their sins, and accept the ordinances performed in their behalf in temples, they will be welcomed into paradise. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

While you have your health, you can do many good things. However, once sickness comes, I do not know what you will be able to do. Few are able to turn sickness to their spiritual advantage. Or so I have been able to observe. As for those poor pilgrims who think that making the rounds of all the Martyr’s shrines will improve their own chances at death, they are just deluding themselves. Friends and neighbours are nice, but do not put your confidence in them for long, and certainly do not expect them to stand in for you at Final Bar. Why? Because they will forget you more quickly than you had guess. Now is the time for you to do something about it. Do provide for yourself, and do set aside a bit of the good for the future. Worry about yourself, yes, and do it now. Why? Who will worry about you in the future? The present moment is precious, as the Apostle Paul said in his Second Letter to the Corinthians. Now is “the day of salvation; now, the perfect time” (6.2). Oh, what an outrage it is! You live your life without a plan. You fill your day with indifferent acts. Do not you realize what is at stake? It is your eternal life. Just one day more, just one hour more, to change your life for the better—that is what you will petition the Almighty for sometime soon, someday soon. And what you want to know from me today is whether your request will be honoured. Well, I really do not know. Just the thought of death is paralyzing, dearest friend, and there is nothing your can do about it. All you can do is build up your strength, your spiritual strength—that is what you will need in the Final Hour. Then you will rejoice, not recoil, at the thought of death. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

Now is the time, when you have got your physical strength, to stop living with the World and start living with Jesus Christ—that was Paul’s advice to the Romans (6.8), to condemn everything in the World and forge ahead for Christ. To face death with confidence, you must commit your creaking corpus to a grueling program of penance. Ahh, what a Dummkopf! You think you will live a long life when you do not know if you can survive till the end of the day! Lots of people have had the same thought, but now they are no longer with us, swept off the face of the Earth before they had a chance at a second thought. How many have died recently—is not that often the subject of casual conversation? This one has been stabbed; that one has been drowned. So-and-so has had a great fall and broke his thick neck. What’s-his-name has choked to death on his dinner. You-know-who began his game, but someone else had to finish it. Fire, war, plague robbery—killers all! So it may be said, and it is true in several senses, death is the end of all of us. Did we really need the Ancient Preacher in Ecclesiastes (7.20) to tell us this? What is after all? It is like a cloud formed by the wind into a Puff, sang the Psalmist (144.4), and yet by the very same wind wheezed away in all directions. Death will surely come, but who will remember you after death? And who will pray for you? Do it, dear soul; just do it now. You do not know when you will die. And when you do drop dead, you do not know what will happen right after. Once you have made the time, gather around you only immortal riches, or so the Gospel of Luke exhorted (12.33). Think of nothing else but your own salvation. Take care only for thing things of God. Also use the time you have left to make some new friends for yourself: the Saint of God. Venerate them and imitate their lives. Then, when it is time to leave your wretched hut, as Luke would say (16.9), “They will welcome you into their tents.” #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

While you are on this Earth, abandon your citizenship, but preserve your status as a wanderer who knows no home but a hostel. That is how the First Letter of the Apostle Peter summed it up (2.11). Pay no attention o the commerce of this World. Keep your affections unencumbered and always raised to God. Why? You know why. You do not have here a lasting dwelling place, warned the Letter to the Hebrews (13.14). To that Heavenly Domicile, then, direct your daily prayers and tearful practices. If you do not, what will happen to your spirit after death? One thing is sure. It will not deserve to pass happily through to the Lord. Amen. To say that God “is a particular Thing” does seem to obliterate the immeasurable difference not only between what He is and what all other things are but between the very mode of His existence and theirs. I must at once restore the balance by insisting that derivative things, from atoms to archangels, hardly attain to existence at all in comparison with their Creator. Their principle of existence is not in themselves. You can distinguish what they are from the fact that they are. The definition of them can be understood and a clear idea of them formed without even knowing whether they are. Existence is an “opaque” addition to the idea of them. However, with God it is no so: if we fully understood what God is we should see that there is no questions whether He is. It would always have been impossible that He should not exist. He is the opaque center of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood. And yet, now that He has created, there is a sense in which we must say that He is a particular Thing and even one Thing among others. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

To say this is not to lessen the immeasurable difference between Him and them. On the contrary, it is to recognize God an absolute perfection of being creative. He is so brim-full of existence that He can give existence away, can cause things to be, and to be really other than Himself, can make it untrue to say that He is everything. It is clear that there never was a time when nothing existed; otherwise nothing would exist now. However, to exist means to be an absolute Something, to have (metaphorically) a certain shape or structure, to be this and not that. The Thing which always existed, namely God, has therefore always had His own absolute character. Throughout all eternity certain statements about Him would have been true and others false. And from the mere fact of our own existence and Nature’s we already know to some extent which are witch. We know that He invents, acts, creates. After that there can be no ground for assuming in advance that He does not do miracles. Why, then, do mystic talk of Him as they do, and why are many people prepared in advance to maintain that, whatever else God may be, He is not the concrete, living, willing, and acting God of Christian theology? I think the reason is as follows. Let us suppose s mystical limpet, a self-actualized among limpets, who (rapt in vision) catches a glimpse of what Man is like. In reporting it to his disciples, who have some vision themselves (though less than he) he will have to use many negatives. He will have to tell them that Man has no shell, is not attached to a rock, is not surrounded by water. And his disciples, having a little vision of their own to help them, do get some idea of Man. However, then there come erudite limpets, limpets who write histories of philosophy and give lectures on comparative religion, and who have never had any vision of their own. What they get out of the prophetic limpet’s words is simply and solely the negatives. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

From these, uncorrected by any positive insight, they build up a picture of Man as a sort of amorphous jelly (he has no shell) existing nowhere in particular (he is not attached to a rock) and never taking nourishment (there is no water to drift it towards him). And having a traditional reverence for Man they conclude that to be a famished jelly in a dimensionless void is the supreme mode of existence, and reject as crude, materialistic superstition any doctrine which would attribute to Man a definite shape, a structure, and organs. Our own situation is much like that of the erudite limpets. Great prophets and saints have an intuition of God which is absolute and concrete in the highest degree. Because, just touching the fringes of His being, they have seen that He is plenitude of life and energy and joy, therefore (and for no other reason) they have to pronounce that He transcends those limitations which we call personality, passion, change, materiality, and the like. The absolute quality in Him which repels these limitations is their only ground for all the negatives. However, when we come limping after and try to construct an intellectual or “enlightened” religion, we take over these negatives (infinite, immaterial, impassible, immutable, et cetera) and use them unchecked by any absolute intuition. At each step we have to strip off from our idea of God some human attribute. However, the only real reason for stripping off the human attribute is to make room for putting in some absolute divine attribute. In St. Paul’s language, the purpose of all this unclothing is not that our idea of God should reach nakedness but that it should be re-clothed. However, unhappily we have no means of doing the re-clothing. #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

When we have removed from our idea of God some puny human characteristic, we (as merely erudite or intelligent enquirers) have no resources from which to supply that blindingly real and concrete attribute of Deity which ought to replace it. Thus at each step in the process of refinement our idea of God contains less, and the fatal picture come in (an endless, silent sea, an empty sky beyond all stars, a dome of white radiance) and we reach at last mere zero and worship a nonentity. And the understanding, left to itself, can hardly help following this path. That is why the Christian statement that only He who does the will of the Father will ever know the true doctrine is philosophically accurate. Imagination may help a little: but in the moral life, and (still more) in the devotional life we touch something concrete which will at once begin to correct the growing emptiness of our idea of God. One moment even of feeble contrition or blurred thankfulness will, at least in some degree, head us off from the abyss of abstraction. It is Reason herself which teaches us not to rely on Reason only in this matter. For Reason knows that she cannot work without materials. When it becomes clear that you cannot find out by reasoning whether the cat is in the linen-cupboard, it is Reason herself who whispers, “Go and look.” This is not my job: it is a matter for the senses.” So here. The materials for correcting out abstract conception of God cannot be supplied by Reason: she will be the first to tell you to go and to try experience—“Oh, taste and see!” #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

For of course she will have already pointed out that your present position is absurd. As long as we remain Erudite Limpets we are forgetting that if no one had ever seen more of God than we, we should have no reason even to believe Him immaterial, immutable, impassible, and all the rest of it. Even that negative knowledge which seems to us so enlightened is only a relic left over from the absolute knowledge of better human—only the pattern which that Heavenly wave left on the sand when it retreated. The human understanding, from is peculiar nature easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. People readily see correlations or cause-effect links where there are none. Thus they all too readily make sense out of nonsense, by believing that astrological predictions predict the future, that their favourite gambling strategies can defy the laws of chance, or that superstitious rituals bring good luck. So consistent is our human tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our judgments that some researchers refer to this phenomenon as “cognitive conceit.” For example, if people’s answers to a factual question—such as, “Which is longer, the Panama or the Suez Canal?”—as 60 percent of the time correct, they will typically feel 75 percent sure. Even when they feel 100 percent sure, they still err about 15 percent of the time on such questions. The available evidence indicates that they overconfidence phenomenon extents to scientists as they evaluate their own theories, to clinicians as they diagnose their psychology troubled client, and to theologians as they expound their doctrines. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

Some humans become attached to particular sciences and contemplations, either from supposing themselves the authors and inventors of them, or from having bestowed the greatest pains upon such subjects, and thus become most habituated to them. Coal, rail, textile, steel, auto, rubber, machine tool manufacture—these were the classical industries of the Second Wave. Based on essential simple electromechanical principles, they used high energy inputs, spat out enormous waste and pollution, and were characterized by long production runs, low skill requirements, repetitive work, standardized goods, and heavily centralized controls. From the mid-1950’s it became increasingly apparent that these industries were backward and waning in the industrial nations. In the United States of America, for example, while the labour force grew by 21 percent between 1965 and 1974, textile employment rose by only 6 percent and employment in iron and steel actually dropped 10 percent. A similar pattern was evident in Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Japan, and other Second Wave nations. As these old-fashion industries began to be transferred to so-called “developing” countries, where labour was less expensive and technology no as advanced, their social influence also began to die out and a set of dynamic new industries shot up to take their place. These new industries differed markedly from their predecessors in several respects: they were no longer primarily electrotechnical and no longer based on the classic science of the Second Wave era. Instead, they rose from accelerating breakthroughs in a mix of scientific disciplines that were rudimentary or even nonexistent as recently as twenty-five years ago-quantum electronics, information theory, molecular biology, oceanics, nucleonics, ecology, and the space sciences. #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

And they made it possible for us t reach beyond the grosser features of time and space, with which Second Wave industry concerned itself, to manipulate, as Russian physicist B. G. Kunetsov has noted, “very small spatial regions (say, of the radius of an atomic nucleus, id est, 10^-13 centimeters) and temporal interval of the order of 10^-23 seconds.” It is from these new sciences and our radically enhanced manipulative abilities that the new industries arose—computers and data processing, aerospace, sophisticated petrochemicals, semiconductors, advanced communications, and scores of other. In the United States of America, where this shift from Second Wave to Third Wave technologies began earliest—sometimes in the mid-1950’s—old regions like Merrimack Valley in New England sank into that statues of depressed areas while places like Route 128 outside Boston of “Silicon Valley” in California zoomed into prominence, their suburban homes filled with specialists in solid-state physics, systems engineering, artificial intelligence, or polymer chemistry. Moreover, one could track the transfer of jobs and affluence as they followed the transfer of technology, so that the so-called “sun-belt” states, fed by heavy defense contracts, built an advanced technological base while the older industrial regions in the Northeast and around the Great Lakes plunged into lassitude and near-bankruptcy. The long running financial crisis of New York City was a clear reflection of this technological upheaval. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

So, too, was the stagnation of Lorraine, France’s center of steelmaking. And so, at yet another level, was the failure of British socialism. Thus, at the end of World War II the Labour government spoke of seizing the “commanding heights” of industry and did so. However, the commanding heights it nationalized turned out to be coal, rail, and steel—precisely those industries being by-passed by the technological revolution: yesterday’s commanding heights. Regions or sectors of the economy based on Third Wave industries boomed; those based on Second Wave industries languished. However, the changeover has hardly begun. Today many governments are consciously seeking to accelerate this structural shift while reducing the pains of transition. Japanese planners in MITI—the Ministry of International Trade and Industry—are studying new technologies to support the service industries of the future. German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his advisers speak of strukturpolitik and look to the European Investment Bank to facilitate the move out of traditional mass production industries. Today, four clusters of related industries are poised for major growth and are likely to become the backbone industries of the Third Wave era, brining with them, once more, major shifts in economic power and in social and political alignments. Electronics and computers clearly form one such interrelated cluster. The electronics industry, a relative newcomer on the World scene, reached a value of nearly $1,097.7 billion, and now accounts for more than $1261165 million in sales per year, and is expected to grow by 6 percent, and will reach $1731053 million in 2025. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

The largest industries in the World are Telecommunications, automobile manufacturing, oil and gas, food industry, and information technology. The speed with which computers have spread is so well known it hardly needs elaboration. Costs have dropped so sharply and capacity has risen so spectacularly that, according to Computerworld magazine, “If the auto industry had done what the computer industry has done in the last 30 years, a Rolls-Royce would cost $2.50 and get 2,000,000 miles to the gallon.” Today, inexpensive mini-computers are invading the American home. In recent years, media players for digital signage have gone from bulky devices to pieces of equipment that can fit into the palm of your hand. As technology has evolved, smaller devices are now incredibly capable and power-efficient. They can fit into compact spaces, mobile applications and offer comprehensive, reliable connectivity for remote management. Every home now has a computer and most people walk around with mini computers in their pockets or on their arms. Computers are as standard as toilets. Linked to banks, stores, government office, to neighbours’ homes, workplace, cars and human beings, such computers are reshaping not only business, from production to retailing, health and beauty, but the very nature of work and, indeed, even the structure of the family. Like the computer industry to which it is umbilically tied, the electronic industry has also been exploding, and consumers have been deluged with hand-held music players, mini computers, watch computers, and TV screen games. These, however, provide only the palest hint of what lies in store to take over: tiny, inexpensive climate and soil sensors in agriculture; infinitesimal medical devices built into ordinary clothing to monitor heartbeat or stress levels of the wearer—these and a multitude of other applications of electronics are just starting to lurk into the present. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

The advance of Third Wave industries, moreover, is being radically accelerated by the energy crisis, inasmuch as many of them carry us toward processes and products that are miserly in their energy requirements. Second Wave telephone systems, for example, require virtual copper mines beneath the city streets—endless miles of snaking cable, conduit, relays, and switches. We have now converted to fiber optic systems that use hair-thin light carrying fibers to convey messages and wireless technology. The energy implications of this switchover have been staggering: it takes about one thousandth the energy to manufacture optical fiber that it took to dig, smelt, and process an equivalent length of copper wire. The same ton of coal required to produced 90 miles of copper wire can turn out 80,000 miles of fiber. At the height of his career, the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla became obsessed with an idea. He theorized that electricity could be transmitted wirelessly through the air at long distances—either through a series of strategically positioned towers, or hopping across a system of suspended balloons. Things did not go to plan, and Tesla’s ambitions for a wireless global electricity supply were never realized. However, the theory itself was not disproved: it would have simply required an extraordinary amount of power, much of which would have been wasted. Now, research has suggested that the architects of the 5G network may have unwittingly built what Tesla did not manage to construct at the turn of the twentieth century: a “wireless power grid” that could be adapted to charge or power small devices embedded in cars, homes workplaces and factories. #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

Because 5G relies upon a dense network of masts and a powerful series of antenna, it is possible that the same infrastructure, with some adjustments, could beam power to small devices. However, the transmission will still suffer from the key drawback of Tesla’s towers: high energy wastage, which may be difficult to justify given the urgency of the climate crisis. The shift to solid-state physics in electronics moves in the same direction, each step forward producing component that require smaller and smaller inputs of energy. This characteristic of the electronic revolution suggests that one of the most powerful conservation strategies for energy-starved high-technology economies may well be the rapid substitution of low-energy Third Wave industries for energy-wasting Second Wave industries. More generally, the World’s economic activity has been substantially altered by the electronics explosion. Indeed, reality is outstripping fiction in the rate of introduction of new and often unexpected applications of electronics. The electronics explosion has only been one step in the direction of an entirely new techno-sphere. We all at times fall into the habit of speaking of suburbia as if it is a relatively homogeneous area. That is, a place of beautiful free-standing single family homes with emerald green lawns where everyone is a professional, middle-class or more affluent, and has children. We of course know better; we are aware that there are rich suburbs and poor suburbs, estate suburbs and garden apartment suburbs, residential suburbs and industrial park suburbs. Still we keep the standard image of a convenient shorthand and tend to forget that some suburbs vary widely from the norm. There is a remarkable range of types of suburbs. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

In terms of income, suburbs range from very rich, such as Kenilworth, Illinois, outside Chicago, where the income per capita (not family income, but per person income) is $104,301, with a median homes value of $1,000,000, and Bloomfield, Michigan, outside Detroit, the median income per capita in the township is $89,205, and the median house price is $533,635, to the poorest of suburbs, such as Ford Heights, Illinois, outside Chicago, where the per capita income is $12,217 and median home value is $80,200, or Cudahy, California, outside Los Angeles, where the per capita income is $14,385, but the median homes price is $532,834. In addition to the above income category, we can differentiate suburbs in a number of fashions. Suburbs can, in addition to socioeconomic status of income, education, and occupation, be differentiated by age, ethnicity, race, and function. In categorizing suburbs we can contrast older versus newer, growing versus stagnant, ethnic versus WASP, and incorporated versus unincorporated. The fact is, suburban settlements are so diverse that no single typology adequately encompasses all suburban types. One of the most used postwar typologies is between those suburbs that essentially serve as bedroom communities (residential suburbs) and those have primarily a manufacturing, trade, or business function (employment suburbs). Mixed-usage suburbs, combining the characteristics of the other two, can also be delineated. There are clear differences among these three categories of suburbs in terms of age of residents, ethnic composition, fertility rates, population growth, socioeconomic status, and housing characteristics. #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

Systematically there are difference in social and economic characteristics in each type of suburban community. Employment suburbs contain higher proportions of both foreign born and non-European American inhabitants than do residential suburbs, with mixed suburbs in the middle. Socioeconomic status, as measured by percentage having completed high school, percentage in white-collar occupations, and median income level, was highest in the residential suburbs. The mixed suburb was in the middle, and the employment suburbs were lowest. Residential suburbs as a group also had faster growth rate than employment suburbs. Other systems of categories have also been developed. Within the general category of residential suburbs, the pollster Louis Harris classified suburbs in for categories on the basis of income level and the rate of growth. The categories are: First, affluent bedroom: Affluent bedroom communities include such places as New Canaan, Connecticut; Leawood, Kansas; and Irving, California. They come closet to the traditional stereotype of a suburb. Such places rank at the top in terms of resident income levels, degree of home ownership, and proportion of residents employed as professionals and managers. Second, affluent settled: Affluent settled communities such as Oak Park, Illinois; Cherry Hill, New Jersey; and Fairfield, Connecticut are past their period of growth and may even be losing population. Since their land is developed, they are beyond the building-boom stage, and some may have considerable older housing. The housing stock is in good repair, and the neighbourhoods are comfortable. Affluent settled communities tend to have a wider range of economic activities and to be more self-sufficient and les purely residential than affluent bedrooms suburbs. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

Third, low-income: Low-income, growing suburbs are often the home of upwardly mobile white-collar and blue-collar workers. These communities, such as El Monte, California; Sylvania, Ohio; and Millerica, Massachusetts are much less likely to fit the stereotype of suburbia. Forth, low-income stagnant: Low-income stagnant suburbs are places that are suburbs by definition but do not at all fit the suburban stereotype. Places such as East Orange, New Jersey; McKeesport, Pennsylvania; and Joliet, Illinois are essentially satellite cities rather than suburbs, and they have the full range of economic activities associated with central cities. In 2021, we would probably make some additions to the above list, such as the mixed, nonresidential and residential out-city suburbs that combine office parks, shopping malls, and residential neighbourhooods. However, whatever typology or categories are used, the important thing to note is that there are predictable patters of variations. Suburban growth is not as random or chaotic as it is often portrayed. Persistent and systematic differences exist. Suburban growth, in spite of its bas press, is not haphazard. Infinite Spirit, when I pray each day for shelter for those without homes, let me not ignore the pet without a home; as I ask protection for those in areas of turmoil and unrest, let me not forget endangered species of life; when I pray that the hungry be fed, please let me be mindful that all God’s creatures have need of sustenance; as I ask Divine assistance for those afflicted by fire, flood, earthquake, storm or drought, please let me remember that this included every living thing. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

In seeking miracle cures for human disease, may I also speak for the well-being of the planet itself. Please let the word of my mouth, the meditations of my heart and the actions of my life be as one, that I may live each day in harmony with Mother Earth. Amen. May God’s great name be blessed forever and ever. Exalted and honoured be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, whose glory transcends, yea, is beyond all praises; hymns and blessings that humans can render unto Him; and say ye, Amen. If we want to hear the voice of the Overself, we have to create a quiet all around us and all within us and we have to listen and go on listening with patience. To enjoy a glimpse it is better to be alone, undisturbed, and undistracted, better to be with nature than with people, better to be among the woods and lakes and mountains than in the offices, the drawing rooms, and the factories of society. Some, like the poet Keats, find Truth through beauty while others, like the poet Dante, find it through suffering. That is a valuable meditation which, whether at odd moments or for fixed periods, return again and again to dwell on the nature of the Overself and disregards all lesser topics. Such frequent remembrances and such fixed meditations become indeed a kind of communion and are usually rewarded sooner or later by the glimpse. The contemplation in memory of those glimpses will help one to weaken the power of negative thoughts to weaken, however slightly, the very source of those thoughts, the ego. One must look ardently forward to, and eagerly await, each time when the Overself takes over more and more. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

The Lightening-flash may occur either after reason reaches the peak of its performance  and has been exhausted, or by deliberately abandoning intellectual activity for the utmost faith and devotion. In both cases, one has to let go and sink back into the Nothing and stop furher efforts on one’s own. Sometimes, by destiny the Lightning-flash can occur unexpectedly when no effort is made. Accept my prayer, O Lord, and please answer me with Thy great mercy and with Thy great mercy and with Thy saving truth. Amen. And it came to pass that when the Ark moved forward, Moses said: Rise up, O Lord, and let Thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Thee flee before Thee. For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Blessed be He who, in His holiness, gave the Torah to His people of American. Extol the Lord with me, and together let us exalt His name. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power, the glory, the victory and the majesty; for al that is in Heaven and on the Earth is Thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted supreme above all. Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool; holy is He. Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain for the Lord our God is holy. If one can come to this belief in the reality of one’s own higher self, one can come into all the knowledge one needs, all the help one needs, by heeding its guidance (felt intuitively) and by applying its injunctions to one’s daily life. If the ego would be willing to abdicate its rule for a short period, the way to a glimpse would be opened. The paradox is perfect: when one is most empty of petty ends, the shinning glimpse reveals itself. The Universe is such a vast and mysterious labyrinth that those who choose to explore its depths may end up lost there forever. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21

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